Aging affects the immune system. We know that. Aging affects pretty much everything. The trouble is that so do lots of other factors. How exactly do we figure out what aging is specifically? What should your immune system look like, and how does it change as you grow older? The 1000 Immunomes Project wants to […]
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You may have heard of your biological clock, but what about your inflammatory clock of aging (iAge)? As this is a relatively recent idea from scientists, you may not know what it means. It’s a way of measuring the aging of your immune system, your risk of developing age-related inflammation and other illnesses, and how
Sometimes it seems that every part of the body degenerates as we grow older. Human lifespans may be extending, but as they do, more people run into the diseases of aging. Stem cell therapy is touted as a potential solution to many age-related problems, but some of the strongest evidence is for how it might
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The immune system is supposed to be the thing that protects you from disease, but what about when it decides you’re the disease and attacks you like you’re the enemy? There are a lot of different autoimmune conditions, each with their own symptoms, but most come with a general malaise that may not make life
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Inflammation is one of the great irritations of aging, literally as well as figuratively. It becomes more common, it becomes more serious, and it underpins conditions ranging from Alzheimer’s to arthritis. Why exactly is this, and is there anything we can do about it? There’s some debate among scientists about whether inflammation is a symptom
Many parts of the body become weaker or less effective as we age. Mobility and flexibility decrease, physical strength is lost, hormone levels change, and even the brain slows down. Then there’s immunosenescence, or the aging of the immune system, which creates its own specific problems. The effects of aging on the immune system are
You probably know what the immune system is in a general sense. It’s your body’s great defender, fighting off illness and disease. You probably also know that it changes throughout your life. That’s where it starts getting interesting. Babies, when they’re first born, don’t have much in the way of immunity. Their bodies need to
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There are so many factors that can affect our longevity. Some of them, like genes, cannot be controlled, but there are a lot of lifestyle choices involved, too. You probably know that hormone levels change as you age, but how does that affect your actual lifespan? Let’s focus on one set of hormones in particular:
Aging doesn’t just slow your movements and make it harder to exercise. It also slows the recovery process after the exercise is finished. Every ache and pain seems to last longer when you’re older. Is there any way to alleviate that effect? There are lots of possible reasons that aging slows recovery, and most people
As we’re perhaps becoming all too aware, health isn’t always an individual matter. In some cases, it’s a public concern. When it comes to infectious diseases, which can spread rapidly through a community, that community needs to work together to tackle it. When a disease starts to spread around a particular area or population, the
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